Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
 

Tumbleweed wrote:

It occurs to me that phoning just to whinge is more effective since it ties
up their phone lines even if only for a few minutes, which means people cant
get through to order.

No, phoning earns them money as they charge you 8p a minute to talk to
some Indian graduate who is being paid 8p an hour to answer the phone.

If they get really busy on the phones they'll just employ a few
thousand more, and make even more money.

In fact they could one day make more out of the complaints phone line
than out of subscriptions.

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Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
 

In news:[email protected],
Stephen Chadfield typed almost using sensible
wording:
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Tumbleweed wrote:
The only thing they would care about is;

"please cancel my subscription immediately. Reason for cancellation is
the
advertising on screen overwriting the program you are showing"

I can't cancel immediately - the whole family is eager to see Ricky
Gervais on the Simpsons!

Don't hold your brreath. It's crap much like the rest of the Simpsons they
produce nowadays.. I've seen it.

Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
 

awavey wrote:
In article , Mike Henry wrote:
It's interesting that there are so many complaints this week, far more
than the other occasions. Despite it being - by Sky's standards at least
- the most subtle one of the lot! It seems that frequency of the advert
(number of times it is used) is more annoying that how much of each
programme it covered was ruined? Surely not?

maybe its the actual programmes being affected that increases the level of
annoyingness/complaints, as I hadnt seen any of those before because I dont
watch Malcom in the Middle

whereas I did watch Sky One tonight for Battlestar Galactica, and so obviously
saw the new DOG and wasnt too happy about it.

although in consideration, were getting off quite lightly it seems :)


AW

I look forward to watching Battlestar Galactica every Tuesday but had
to turn it off last night as I couldn't put up with the Simpson's
banner stretching across the screen.

The way Sky is heading we will be lucky to see any of the programs
hidden beneath a barrage of on-screen advertising.

Became so incensed that I phoned to cancel my subscription, I'll rather
wait and buy the dvds. Got through to the accounts department and they
offered to reduce the monthly subscription for three months but if
thing do not improve I will be cancellng it.

JB

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"Paul Heslop" wrote in message
...
Tumbleweed wrote:

It occurs to me that phoning just to whinge is more effective since it
ties
up their phone lines even if only for a few minutes, which means people
cant
get through to order. An email or letter costs them nothing to read and
inconveniences no one there.

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have you tried ringing sky recently?


Yes. Thats why it would inconveience them, but you'd need to call free phone
and on hands free as not to get too bored.

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"Jomtien" wrote in message
...
Tumbleweed wrote:

It occurs to me that phoning just to whinge is more effective since it
ties
up their phone lines even if only for a few minutes, which means people
cant
get through to order.

No, phoning earns them money as they charge you 8p a minute to talk to
some Indian graduate who is being paid 8p an hour to answer the phone.

If they get really busy on the phones they'll just employ a few
thousand more, and make even more money.

In fact they could one day make more out of the complaints phone line
than out of subscriptions.


Its the opportunity cost of someone giving up who might have ordered they
are worried about. And they really do not want to employ more people. But I
take your point. is there a freephone no for sky?

--
Tumbleweed

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tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com

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"Mike Henry" wrote in message
...
However, that said, I do MUCH prefer this latest way "version 3" of
doing it...
http://xs77.xs.to/pics/06163/20060414-smaller.jpg

To Sky's old way a few days ago "version 2":
http://xs77.xs.to/pics/06163/20060409-vroom.jpg

Version 2 was presumably created because not enough of us complained
about this "version 1" - which remember was animated as well:
http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs60&d=05514&f=malc-ruined-01.jpg

It's interesting that there are so many complaints this week, far more
than the other occasions. Despite it being - by Sky's standards at least
- the most subtle one of the lot! It seems that frequency of the advert
(number of times it is used) is more annoying that how much of each
programme it covered was ruined? Surely not?

Well the difference is that V3 is permanent, whereas V1/2 were temporary

Loz

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Tumbleweed wrote:

"Paul Heslop" wrote in message
...
Tumbleweed wrote:

It occurs to me that phoning just to whinge is more effective since it
ties
up their phone lines even if only for a few minutes, which means people
cant
get through to order. An email or letter costs them nothing to read and
inconveniences no one there.

--
Tumbleweed

email replies not necessary but to contact use;
tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com

have you tried ringing sky recently?


Yes. Thats why it would inconveience them, but you'd need to call free phone
and on hands free as not to get too bored.

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:O) not to mention being able to switch off that annoying tune.
--
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^^artnada^^ wrote:

In news:[email protected],
Stephen Chadfield typed almost using sensible
wording:
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Tumbleweed wrote:
The only thing they would care about is;

"please cancel my subscription immediately. Reason for cancellation is
the
advertising on screen overwriting the program you are showing"

I can't cancel immediately - the whole family is eager to see Ricky
Gervais on the Simpsons!

Don't hold your brreath. It's crap much like the rest of the Simpsons they
produce nowadays.. I've seen it.

I will say there are odd ones, Future-Drama for instance, which fail
more times than they hit the mark, but some of the newer ones have
bristled with classic humour. I'm about 50/50 on this

--
Paul (Take my hand, I'm standing right here)
-------------------------------------------------------
Stop and Look
http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/

Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
 

Edster wrote:

Stephen Chadfield wrote in message

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Tumbleweed wrote:
The only thing they would care about is;

"please cancel my subscription immediately. Reason for cancellation is the
advertising on screen overwriting the program you are showing"

I can't cancel immediately - the whole family is eager to see Ricky
Gervais on the Simpsons!

When is it on?

Ha ha ha

seriously, this sunday. I don't know about the rest of the tv papers
but TV & Satellite weekly are making about as big a thing as they
would the queen popping into Albert square.

--
Paul (Take my hand, I'm standing right here)
-------------------------------------------------------
Stop and Look
http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/

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"Stephen Chadfield" wrote in message
news:[email protected]
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Tumbleweed wrote:
The only thing they would care about is;

"please cancel my subscription immediately. Reason for cancellation is
the
advertising on screen overwriting the program you are showing"

I can't cancel immediately - the whole family is eager to see Ricky
Gervais on the Simpsons!

--
Stephen Chadfield
http://www.chadfield.com/

Ricky Gervais, who is this burk anyways!

Zetec